AS OF 2000, CAT. #67910 CONSISTS OF ONE TRIPLE COLUMN OF CYLINDRICAL WOVEN SPRUCE-ROOT? RINGS, SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS "POTLATCH RINGS," USUALLY USED ON TOPS OF HATS. -F. PICKERING 6-14-2000

From card: "Illus. in USNM AR 1888; Pl. 48, fig. 267, p. 322." Identified there as wood carved in shape of a dragonfly; copper bowl. Seal or sea lion motif per Tommy Joseph, 6-2-2009.

November 9, 1881 list in accession file lists 2 awls in the collection (called "punches"), one from Hoonia and one from Sitka. E60133 and E60134 appear to be those awls, but it is unclear which one is the one from Hoonia and which one is the one from Sitka.Illus. Fig. 40 p. 52 of Chaussonnet, Valerie. 1995. Crossroads Alaska: native cultures of Alaska and Siberia. Washington, D.C.: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.

FROM CARD: "MADE AND CHASED BY THE INDIANS. WITH CLASP - ILLUS. IN USNM 1888 AR, PL. 8, FIG. 28, P. 260. 49201A-1.3CM WIDE, SCROLL DESIGN. 49201B-1.4 CM WIDE, SCROLL DESIGN. INVENTORIED 1979."This object is # 26 on McLean's list of objects in the accession file. He notes that these 2 silver bracelets were "hammered out and engraved by Sitka Indians."

Listed on page 43 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes".

FROM CARD: "BENT BOWL, WOOD, CARVED IN RELIEF; RIM INLAID WITH OPERCULA; KERFED, SEWN WITH CEDAR ROOT. LOANED, RENWICK GALLERY NOV. 7, 1973 (BOXES & BOWLS) RET'D., 8-24-76." FROM CARD: "67903. FROM: PAGE 71, BOXES AND BOWLS CATALOG; RENWICK GALLERY; SMITHSONIAN PRESS; 1974. OBJECT ILLUS. ON SAME PAGE. 62.BENT BOWL. WOOD; CARVED IN RELIEF; RIM INLAID WITH OPERCULA; KERFED, SEWN WITH CEDAR ROOT. LENGTH: 14 3/4. (TLINGIT), CHILKAT, ALASKA. "FOOD BOX." COLLECTED BY J. J. MCLEAN CATALOGED NOVEMBER 24, 1882. 67,903."

May be Sitka Tlingit?: it is identified as collected in Sitka; and also see accession history re the basket part of this accession being from the "Sitka-Kwahn."

Provenience note: collection apparently purchased or collected by McLean in Sitka and vicinity circa 1884.From card: "Wooden mask, human face with bird beak. Cut from the solid, carved and painted. Ears pegged on (now gone). Crack at side crudely repaired with two heavy iron staples. Recurved beak (hawk or eagle?). Cloud hat formerly pegged to top of crown now missing. Paint colors: vermillion, green, black. White shell teeth inserted in slots within upper and lower lips. Bore tag saying "Helmet, thunder bird, Klingit.""Florence Sheakley and Alan Zuboff, elders, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. The hat may feature a hawk design, which only would have been used for war helmets because the Tlingit do not have any hawk designations for clans. This object looks like it has been repaired and used to have ears. This object may have been an early iteration of a later, more light weight hat.